Have you found the secret to inner calm, peace, or happiness? You’ve caught on to the idea that the outer world is unable to furnish you with your true inner desires; the ones with eternal and soul-filling meaning. Yet wait, who’s being so quick to judge the outer-worldly influences. Are…

Are your eyes taking over the burden from your ears in receiving incoming communications? I read a white paper about the world of work in the late 1960s. The times, they were a-changin’. The written memorandum was being replaced by electronic typewriters and computers. The thought processes changed. When writing…

Monday Dec 23rd and Christmas is soon upon us. Are you going to make memories this week or are memories going to make you? 7 years ago today my wife & I were driving up to Scotland for a get-away-from-it-all log cabin break; we’d had a tough year following the…

Like a snake sheds its skin, we are capable of getting rid of assembled habits, creating space to call matters into question. Instead of the Shakespearian “To be or not to be” we could favor “to become or not to become”. By “becoming”, we challenge the range of possibilities in…

I love the way in which here, Huxley relates to quicksand. ⠀ So take heed and seek the slowsand which will let you travel lightly.⠀ ⠀ “It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. ⠀ Learn to do everything lightly. ⠀ Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. ⠀ Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.⠀ So throw away your baggage and go forward. ⠀ There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. ⠀ That’s why you must walk so lightly. ⠀ Lightly my darling…”

“Chaos breeds life, where order breeds habit.” — Henry Adams Two opposing conditions that require each other exist for their individual purpose to aid our progression of life. Our daily routine provides stability; a collective stability. If you all drop your Children off to school at 8:40 each day it…

Have you ever been that middle match? For maybe 20+ years I was that middle match. When I was a kid I would hide behind the sofa when my Aunt & Uncle came to visit. I was the shyest of introverts who was afraid of their own shadow. I hadn’t…

Is doubt holding you back? Doubt doesn’t hinder progress; fear is the master at doing that. Doubt may rear it’s head when faced with a choice of doing X or Y. Should I do X or Y? Doubt stops you from jumping to conclusions and just doing something for the…

We strive for happiness in the wandering wilderness of ambition and hope which avails our pursuance of life. Are we ever happy? Do we know happy when it knocks on our door? If we discover a moment of happy does it induce a desire for more happiness? Does not living…